Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

[T.E.Dickey]

> I suspect this is all part of the general "we hate the way columns look 
> in lynx" syndrome.  I keep wondering if perhaps there is a better way 
> to do this.  One thing that was mentioned at one point was if some brave 
> lynx knight stepped forward to take on the dragon of tables, that they 
> might modify the parsing code to start doing a 'look ahead' type cache 
I don't think a look-ahead would work well (though we may be talking about
the same thing) because tables can be nested - so you'd need something
like a recursive parse.

Perhaps revisit that if/when we make changes to cache the file locally.
If it's all in memory, we can do more interesting things to it.

> Larry W. Virden                 INET: address@hidden 

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